Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/10/01
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]on 1/10/00 3:43 am, Jem Kime at jem.kime@cwcom.net wrote: > Mike, > When I learnt (at college) that those interesting black lines around the > clasic poictures by HCB and others were made by the film rebate showing the > edge of the frame I decided to follow that ideology. > I only crop, maybe, 1 or 2 percent of pictures. I'd suggest that if anyone > regularly crops then they're not getting close enough. And getting closer > is different to getting a longer focal length lens. You said it!!!!!!!!!! With the Leica and the 28mm I do crop because the framelines are not accurate and sometimes I don't get what I saw... and often I 'compose from the edges' with this lens so a lot of the subject is out at the sides. But I only chop about 2-4% of the picture area, just to bring it in line with my original intention. You're clearly right that frequent cropping is a sign of not being close enough. But I would say something more... it's a sign of not *seeing* properly what you are photographing. - -- Johnny Deadman http://www.pinkheadedbug.com